196 NocxriDiE. 



]40S. Polia carpophaga. 



^octua carpophaga, Borkli. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 422 (1792) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vi. p. y05, pi. 92. f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 163. 

 Noctua odiracea. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 199 (18U9). 

 Fodua i)erpkxa, iriibii. Eur. Scliinett., Noct. f. 89 (1827). 

 Biaiifhceciacajysopli/la, Boisd. Ind. Mcth. p. 125 (1840); Uup. L6p. Fr., 



Suppl. iv. p. 100, pi. 58. f. 8 (1842). 

 Dianthacia nisus, llerr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 249, pi. 90. f. 461 



(1845), uec Germ. 

 Opigena repanda, Ilerr.-Sehafr. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 330, Noct. f. 61 



(1845). 

 Dianthcecia capsophoha, Embr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 9. f. 2 (1858). 

 Dianthoecia palUcIa, Tutt, Brit. Noct. iii. p. LiO (1892). 



Head and thorax dull red-brown mixed with some grey and 

 black ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen pale reddish brown. Fore 

 wing dull reddish brown slightly irrorated with black, the lines 

 usually tilled in with greyish ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a curved black mark above inner margin near 

 base ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviform moderate, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 white annuli deiined by black, the former round ; a waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line double, the inner lunulate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side 

 by some dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 at veins 4, 3, then incurved ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules defined by whitish ; cilia intersected with whitish. Hind 

 wing pale suffused with reddish brown, especially on terminal area ; 

 cilia pale, with a rufous line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal lunule, sinuous post- 

 medial line, and diffused subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. odiracea. Ground-colour ochreous to pale reddish brown. 



Ab. 2. capsophila. Ground-colour dark brown, the thorax and 

 fore wing more variegated with grey. 



Hah. BRiTAijf, Scotland, Leech Coll., I. of Man (Grer/son), 

 England (DoubUdai/), Ireland, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; 

 Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Switzerland, Leech Coll. ; Corsica ; 

 Spain ; Italy, Capri ( C. S. Browne) ; Dalmatia, Frey and Leech 

 Colls. ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Crimea ; Armenia ; Asia 

 IMiNOR, Pontus, Bithynia, Mardin ; Stria ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, 

 Askabad; E. Turkestan, Hi ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exj). 26-34 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 79; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 233, pi. 162. 



Pale greyish ochreous or brownish ochreous ; dorsal, subdorsal, 

 and spiracular lines pale ; head light brown with darker markings. 

 Food-plants : seed-capsules of Silene injiata and 8. maritima. 7-8. 



*1409. Polia lypra. (Plate LXXXIY. fig. 3.) 

 Bianthoscia lypra, Piing. Iris, xvi. p. 287, pi. vi. f. 3 (1904). 

 $ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with olive-brown 



